Most technologies achieving high-availability for MySQL need a load-balancer to spread the client connections to a valid database host, even the Tungsten special connector can be seen as a sophisticated load-balancer. People often use hardware load balancer or software solution like haproxy. In both cases, in order to avoid having a single point of […]

My December 4 webinar, “Geographical disaster recovery with Percona Replication Manager (PRM),” gave rise to a few questions. The recording of the webinar and the slides are available here, and I’ve answered the questions I didn’t have time to address below.
Q1: Hi, I was wondering if corosync will work in cloud environment. As far as […]

Downtime caused by a disaster is probable in your application’s lifetime. While caused by a large-scale geographical disaster, cyber attack, spiked consumer demand, or a relatively less catastrophic event, downtime equates to lost business. Setting up geographical disaster recovery (geo-DR) has always been challenging but Percona replication manager (PRM) with booth provides a solution […]

It is a rather frequent problem to have to manage Virtual IP addresses (VIPs) with a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or with MySQL master HA (MHA). In order to help solving these problems, I wrote a Pacemaker agent, mysql_monitor that is a simplified version of the mysql_prm agent. The mysql_monitor agent only monitors MySQL […]

The technologies allowing to build highly-available (HA) MySQL solutions are in constant evolution and they cover very different needs and use cases. In order to help people choose the best HA solution for their needs, we decided, Jay Janssen and I, to publish, on a regular basis (hopefully, this is the first), an update […]